Hot off the press (as of July 2015) is v5 of Sonus’ SBC 1k/2k firmware, and its “Third Party Presence” feature. I covered the new features in my last post, but wanted to particularly highlight this one as it’s quite ground-breaking. I think the potential for this is vast: *any* call that’s going through the …
It’s been not 9 months since the last major upgrade to the Sonus SBC 1k/2k family. v4 came out late last year and I wrote of its benefits in early December, in particular the shedding of the Java requirement for the real-time monitor. Now v5 has landed, and it’s perhaps as impressive a leap as …
I was presented with the challenge today of updating the recorded after-hours message of many Lync Response Group workflows through PowerShell. The process wasn’t well documented anywhere, so I thought I’d publish our end solution.
I was tinkering in the Lab recently creating a new Trusted App through PowerShell, and at the “Enable-CsTopology” step it failed with a less-than-helpful error: Enable-CsTopology : Command execution failed: “1” error categories reported in topology document. At line:1 char:1 + Enable-CsTopology + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Enable-CsTopology], DeploymentException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ProcessingFailed,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.ActivateTopologyCmdlet
The latest client update is out: the July 14, 2015, update for Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) (KB3054946). This one takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4727.1001 to 15.0.4737.1001. What’s Fixed Kb3076504 CPU usage is reduced by emoticon animations that are active in multiple conversations in Skype for Business or Lync 2013 Kb3072756 Update …
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July 10th saw an update to the Lync 2013 Server components. In a break with tradition, *every* installed component gets an update, so now they’re all at 5.0.8308.920. The reasoning for this is not yet clear. What’s Fixed? There are a handful of fixes, but lots of generic “improves the reliability, stability, and performance of…”. …